Alalakh: an account of the excavations at Tell Atchana in the Hatay, 1937-1949

• Main Author: Woolley, Leonard (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: London Society of Antiquaries of London 2004
• Series: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London 18
• Subjects: Landscape archaeology; Archaeology by period / region; Prehistoric archaeology; Turkey; excavation; archaeology; Bronze Age; Tell site
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This monograph describes large-scale excavations undertaken by Sir Leonard Woolley from 1937 to 1939, and again from 1946 to 1949, at the site of Alalakh (modern Tell Atchana) - a late Bronze Age city in the Amuq River valley of Turkey's Hatay Province. Described is the evidence of a series of...